"There's a similarity in both being young people who are not about the politics of respectability."

-- Stanley Nelson Jr.

#People Quotes #Young Quotes #Similarity Quotes

“But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking, I became a vegetarian again. The kind of willful forgetting that I was sure meat eating required felt too paradoxical to the intellectual life I was trying to shape. I thought life could, should, and must conform to the mold of reason. You can imagine how annoying this made me.”
“What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it.”
“The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.”
“In a family it is normal to take charge of those who need help. Do not be afraid of frailty!”
“The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis.”
“People should be afraid of the cancer, not the mammogram.”
“Chess is a curse upon a man.”
“We can take that as a notion that we don't know exactly what [Trump] is going to do, but we can't afford to take a position of waiting around to see.”

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